Here is a list
of some successes and failures for possible use for students in an engineering
course:

Note that
the veracity of these events and the details of the failures/successes have not
been checked. Also, only a few references, internet or
otherwise, are provided here. Internet search engines
will provide a wealth of useful information and analysis on many failures - use
imaginative search terms and omit word conjunctions (and, of etc) to optimise the results.